At five dollars, it is the kind of low-stakes purchase that feels almost suspiciously affordable. You are not committing to a giant cat tree that takes over your living room. You are not building a ...

I call him Dexter, though I’m not at all certain that Dexter is a “he.” It’s tough to tell the sex of a feral cat when five ...

Nearly 80 feral cats and countless dogs rely on Ilona Gersun every day. Facing mounting costs and deteriorating kennels, she’s asking the community to help protect the animals who have no one else.

Taylor Bullock told Newsweek: "They have had no human interaction, and have essentially survived on their own." ...

I'm writing in the worst part of a blizzard. What a satisfying, heroic way to start a newspaper column. I'm not kidding, either. Here in Tiverton, Rhode Island, on the shores of Narragansett Bay, ...

Taxes usually feel straightforward until real life complicates them. Beyond the familiar deductions, the IRS has approved a handful of claims that sound odd at first glance. Many were allowed only ...

Because two of us didn’t leave juvie together to start community service—three of us did. But Jordan didn’t last three weeks into his assignment before he turned his implements inward. I notice she ...

Hybrid wild boar pigs from Canada are moving south, threatening U.S. farms with crop destruction and dangerous disease spread.

With state funding a no-go for the minor league Bridgeport soccer venue, owners of the land where it would have been built ...

In 1921, Alexander Meiklejohn, then president of Amherst College, understood the importance of speaking on moral and political issues. He spoke out forcefully during a raging national controversy – ...

UNTIL this week, I’d never heard of Bridget Phillipson, who it turns out is two things: The Secretary of State for Education. And very annoying. It seems she joined the Labour Party when she was ...